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Here is the original article, which has slightly more info: They "checked to make sure the flight wouldn’t be dangerous or illegal", and they used forecasts fr
by geoffschmidt 15y ago
Here is the original article, which has slightly more info:
They "checked to make sure the flight wouldn’t be dangerous or illegal", and they used forecasts from "a website that calculates a weather balloon’s estimated landing spot based on input launch coordinates, prevailing winds, and balloon specs" to time the launch so that the balloon would land in Canada in the US.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1120808--toronto-teens-send-lego-man-on-a-balloon-odyssey-24-kilometres-high http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1120808--toronto-teens-s...
- CWuestefeld 15y agoAny idea what web site it is that does this calculation? I quick DDG search didn't reveal anything, at least with my search-fu. UPDATE: Never mind, I think I found it: http://nearspaceventures.com/w3Baltrak/readyget.pl http://nearspaceventures.com/w3Baltrak/readyget.pl